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Jun 19, 2006
06/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Eric Blehm, author of The Last Season and with Peter Hessler, author of Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. This is the first on-line only edition of Booktown. It was never aired on KVMR-.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Eric Blehm, The Last Season, Peter Hessler, Oracle bones
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Jul 18, 2006
07/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Elizabeth Rosner about her new novel Blue Nude and with Storyteller Susan Klein. They are both appearing in Nevada County this week. This is an online edition of Booktown. Parts of it have been aired on other KVMR programs.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Jordan Fisher Smith about his new book Nature Noir. (This is a membership drive program with several interruptions to solicit new members.)
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Dec 23, 2008
12/08
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Eric Tomb talks with Booktown's Readers Panel about their favorite books of 2008. The Readers and books included: Alison Jones-Pomatto:
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Camille Paglia about her new book Break, Blow, Burn.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Phyllis M Faber, author of California's Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites; with poets Charles Entrekin and Grace Totherow about the upcoming Listening to the Wild reading in Grass Valley; and with therapist Michael Askins about the Poetry and Healing workshop he will conduct with poet Molly Fisk.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Apr 2, 2007
04/07
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Eric Tomb talks with Jerry Mander about his most recent book Paradigm Wars: Indigenous People's Resistence to Globablization; and with Larry Gonick about his Cartoon History of the Universe and Cartoon Guides to this and that.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Oct 31, 2006
10/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, about his book Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. This interview was conducted over a home computer with sleeping cats in the room. Shadid's voice is somewhat echoey, the waking cats quite clear. He then talks with David Callahan about his book The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots.
Topic: KVMR Book Program
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Apr 15, 2008
04/08
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Eric Tomb talks with Wen Huang, translator of the Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up and then with actor, producer and acting teacher Darryl Hickman about his book The Unconscious Actor: Out of Control, In Full Command. Hickman will appear at the Book Seller in Grass Valley at 3 PM on Saturday 19 April.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Liao Yiwu, Wen Huang, The Corpse Walker, Darryl Hickman, The...
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Aug 8, 2006
08/06
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Eric Tomb talks with David Bianculli, TV critic for the New York Daily News and frequent contributor to NPR's Fresh Air, who will be leading several workshops at next week's CSUS Summer Writers' Conference; plays several pieces by Daryl Knight, who will read in the Nevada County Poetry Series' evening of Cowboy Poetry in Grass Valley next week; and talks with Booktown's Brooklyn correspondent Erin Rogers.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jan 22, 2007
01/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about the as yet unnamed book he is writing on the Great Books movement. This is the second of a series on this topic: Eric will check in with Alex every 4-6 months to find out what he's discovering and how the book is progressing. KVMR-FM will broadcast this program on 5 March.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Karen Armstrong about her latest book The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions and with Andrew Wingfield about his novel Hear Him Roar.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jul 21, 2009
07/09
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Eric Tomb talks with Flora Drew, the translator of Ma Jian's powerful novel Beijing Coma, which has just come out in paperback; and with Celtic harpist and storyteller Patrick Ball about the upcoming Sierra Storytelling Festival.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Flora Drew, Ma Jian, Beijing Coma, Patrick Ball, Sierra...
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Nov 14, 2006
11/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Booktown's Camptonville correspondent John Deaderick about his reacent reading, especially David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier; with editor Barry Pateman about the work of Edward Carpenter; and with Chris Olander about the Nevada County Poetry Series Giant Open Mic reading, where the NCPS 2006 Anthology will be introduced.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program, books, Booktown, John Deaderick, David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, Ford Madox...
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May 31, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Hilary Mantel about her novel Beyond Black, which has just come out in paperback; and with poets Molly Fisk, Jane Hilberry and Rynn Williams, who will appear in Grass Valley this Thursday and be the final readers in the Poetry Flash reading series at Cody's Books Telegraph Avenue store in Berkeley next Sunday.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Oct 28, 2008
10/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross about his book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which has just been issued in paperback; and with David Peattie, publisher of Whereabouts Press, about their Traveler's Literary Companion series.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise, David Peattie, Whereabouts...
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with poet Dale Pendell about Pharmako-Gnosis, the final volume in his trilogy on pyschoactive drugs, and with Richard Stockton about his book Fondle the Fear.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Nov 28, 2006
11/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Ronald Quinn, co-author of Introduction to California Chaparral; David Carle, author of Introduction to Air in California; and Maria Brower, author of Nevada City and Gold Rush Towns in Nevada County.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with poet and storyteller Steve Sanfield about his new book The Rain Begins Below: Selected Slightly Longer Poems and with actor Martin Buchanan about his one-man adaptation of Pam Houston's novel Sight Hound.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 10, 2008
06/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with two Nevada County historians about their most recent books: with Hank Meals about The River: Hiking Trails and History of the South Fork of the Yuba River; and with Orval Bronson about Launched into Eternity: Lynching and Judicial Executions in 19th Century Nevada County.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Hank Meals, The River, Yuba River, South Yuba River, Orval...
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Jan 9, 2008
01/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Linda Colley, author of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History and Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown
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Dec 12, 2007
12/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with University of Manitoba Professor of Psychology Bob Altemeyer about his book The Authoritarians and with Lewis Hyde about the 25th anniversary edition of his book The Gift.
Topics: KVMR Book Program, Booktown, books, Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarians, Lewis Hyde, The Gift, Walt...
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about his science fiction novels and upcoming appearance in Nevada City and with Seattle architect David Sucher about his book City Comforts.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 26, 2007
06/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David R Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, about his recent book Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations; then with Nevada County Library Literacy Coordinator Alan Archer.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Jun 23, 2008
06/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with the translators of two widely distant but in some ways very similar poets: Peter Green on his translation of the first century BCE Latin poet Catullus and Hiroaki Sato on his translation of the early 20th century Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji. He ends with two short poems read by the 20th century American kindred spirit Frank O'Hara.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Peter Green, Catullus, Hiroaki Sato, Miyazawa Kenji, Frank...
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Oct 16, 2006
10/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Amy Tan, largely about her latest novel Saving Fish From Drowning; with Jason Roberts, author of A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler; and with Mark Lyon, who will present his one-man play Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long-legged Beasties and tThings that Go Bump in the Night at the Miners Foundry in Nevada city on Thursday 19 October.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Jan 9, 2007
01/07
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Eric Tomb talks with Karen Cerulo, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University anout her book Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst, and with Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, about his book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Apr 30, 2008
04/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Tobias Wolff about his new book Our Story Begins: Selected and New Stories, the plays a rcording of T C Boyle reading the story Bullet in the Brain from the collection. He thn talks with David Ambrose about the Picador paperback reissue of his first novel The Man Who Turned Into Himslf, which was originally published in 1993.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: Selectd and New Stories,...
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Sep 15, 2008
09/08
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Eric Tomb plays a selection from Coleman Barks' CD of his translations of Rumi, Pure Water. Barks presented a similar reaading at the Veterans Building in Grass Valley last Saturday 13 September. He then played a section of a recording of Billy Collins reading his poetry at Boston College in April 2005. Collins has just published a new book of poems, Ballistics.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Coleman Barks, Rumi, Billy Collins, Ballistics
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David Mas Masumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach, this year's reading selection for Nevada County Reads; with Joan Bechtel and Linda Cohen, authors of Motherhood Confidential, who will appear at the Book Seller in Grass Valley this weeks; and with Susan Wooldridge, author of poemcrazy, who will appear at the Madelyn Helling Library this week.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Oct 2, 2006
10/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Nina Jablonski, Head of the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, about her new book Skin: A Natural History and with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about the book he is writing about the origin and development of the Great Books program.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Dec 11, 2006
12/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Richard Silberg, co-translator with Clare You of Korean poet Ko Un's Three Way Tavern, and with Booktown's Bombay correspondent Siddhartha Lokanandi.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Richard Silberg, Clare You, Ko Un, Three Way Tavern, Bombay,...
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May 12, 2008
05/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Patrick Symmes, author of The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile and then with George Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Patrick Symmes, The Boys from Dolores, Fidel Castro, Cuba,...
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Chris Cleave about his novel Incendiary and with Sands Hall about her book Tools of the Writer's Craft
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, and Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Mar 2, 2009
03/09
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with San Francisco Bay Area writer Robert Tindall about his new book The Jaguar That Roams the Mind: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey and with Nevada County author Sylvia Anderson about her new novel Symbolia: A Mythic Journey for Children of All Ages.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Robert Tindall, The Jaguar That Roams the Mind, Sylvia...
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Feb 19, 2008
02/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Philip Fradkin about his new biography Wallace Stegner and the American West. Nevada City writer Sands Hall, whose play Fair Use explores the questions of plagiarism that hover around Stegner's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Angle of Repose, briefly joins in the conversation. Eric then talks with Nevada County writer Dale Pendell about his recent book Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O Brown.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Philip L Fradkin, Wallace Stegner, Sands Hall, Fair Use,...
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Feb 5, 2008
02/08
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Eric tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Geraldine Brooks, best known for her book Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March, about her new novel People of the Book; and with Jordan Fisher Smith, whose 2005 book Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra is this year's choice for Nevada County Reads.
Topics: Booktown, KVMR-FM, books, Geraldine Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire, March, People of the Book, Jordan...
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Apr 16, 2007
04/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb speaks with short story master Deborah Eisenberg about her four volumes of stories and especially her recent Twilight of the Superheroes and with California Poet Laureate Al Young.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with poet William O'Daly about his translations of Pablo Neruda's six posthumous books, some of which he will read from this week in Grass Valley, and with Danna Hanelin about her new CD of short stories by local authors.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jul 8, 2008
07/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Jennifer Heath, editor of The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics. He also mentions Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, whose editor Anne Walthall he was unable to interview.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Jennifer Heath, The Veil, veiling, hijab, burqa, Servants of...
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Jul 11, 2006
07/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Scott Shields, author of Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 and with Katherine Rodger, author of Breaking Through: Essays, Journals and Travelogues of Edward F Ricketts.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Dec 9, 2008
12/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Daniel Everett, Chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department at Illinois State University about his recent book Don't Sleep, There are Snakes, He then talks about about One Thousand Languages, edited by Peter Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in field Linguistics and Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Program at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (he was unable to make a phone connection with the author). He finally talks with...
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Bookstown, Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep There are Snakes, Peter Austin,...
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Aug 5, 2008
08/08
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Eric Tomb/John Fletcher
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Eric Tomb talks with Catherine Stifter about the blogging workshops she will be leading at the Sacramento State Summer Writers Conference and John Fletcher talks with Francisco Lovato about his new book Survivor, which describes his father's experiences during the Bataan Death March during world War II.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Catherine Stifter, Sacramento State Summer Writers...
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Nov 27, 2007
11/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Bill Boyarsky about his new book Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics and with Ruthanne Lum McCunn aboput her new novel God of Luck.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Bill Boyarsky, Jesse Unruh, California politics, Ruthanne...
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Jun 13, 2007
06/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, East Asian Studies and American Studies at the University of Delaware, about her recent book Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; then with the distinguished American novelist James D Houston about his latest novel Bird of Another Heaven.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Jun 9, 2007
06/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric tomb talks with Alexander Cockburn, editor with Jeffrey St Clair of the online political newsletter CounterPunch and editor with JSC of End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (CounterPunch/AK Press). He then talks with Michael Yates, associate editor of the Monthly Review and author of Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: an Economist's Travelogue (Monthly Review Press)
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 10, 2007
05/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with husband and wife mystery writers Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, who will appear at the Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada city at t:30 PM on Friday 18 May. He then reviews the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut, reading a section from Palm Sunday and playing a 1981 interview with Vonnegut and a short section of Vonnegut reading from Slaughterhouse Five.
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Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Aug 7, 2007
08/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb reads from Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's novel The Legend of Fire Horse Woman. Ms Houston will be the keynote speaker at this year's Sacramento State Summer Writers' Conference. He intended to speak with her on the program, but there were problems with the telephone connection.He then plays four poems read by Charles Simic, who was recently appointed United States Poet Laureate.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 27, 2006
06/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Roberta (Bobbie) Conner, author of one of the essays in Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes, and with Catherine Bramkamp about her new novel Woman on the Verge of Wyoming.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
